Season 6 Elite Ensembles Availability

Blizzard is planning on releasing the S6 Elite Ensembles earlier rather than later via a hotfix - hopefully before the end of Season 7.\r\rThese sets are not available to purchase via vendors, which still require a PvP season rank, because they share appearances with the current Season 7 set. \r\rCheck out all these appearances in the Transmog Set Database.\r\rHere's a forum post explaining the situation:\r\rHey All -\r\rI am posting this here instead of the arena forums for visibility. PvP gear in legion has been a sore spot for the whole expansion, but season 6 has kind of been the culmination, since it was staggered with a raid release (making pvp gear ilevels dramatically below comparable pve content; ironic since the only thing that matters in a pvp instance is ilevel), and it shares elite set appearance with S7, which will last until BFA pre-patch. \r\rThe issue at hand now, at season end, is the elite ensembles. Their stated policy is that they do not release the ensembles to vendors until the ensemble is no longer the current skin. Since S7 ensembles will be the same as S5\/6 ensembles, they're not going to be released to the vendors to be buyable by those who achieved s5\/6 elite. This is frustrating for a lot of us, because that means we will not have access to our rewards until the expansion is virtually over. It would be less frustrating if the elite sets were less RNG and generally more attainable during a season, but..\r\r2k is duelist range (top 3% of a bracket that is ~60k players) for at least 12\/16 weeks of the season.\rIt doesn't become accessible for rivals (top 10% of the bracket) until the last month or so once the season has gone long enough and rating has inflated to that point.\rRandom drops over 2k are not elite\r9 of the possible 17 slot pieces that can drop in your guaranteed elite weekly (once you're over 2k) are not visible set pieces, making it possible to be 2k+ for an entire season and still never complete your set because of unlucky rng. (some of the people on the front page of the pvp leaderboard still don't have the full set)\r\r\rIn previous expansions where gear was bought with currency, people could save currency and purchase entire sets when they hit the rating required for that set. IMO, releasing the set at the end of the season to those who hit the cutoff should be the compromise to alleviate that. However, their stated intent is to not release them in this way while they're still current drops so that there is an exclusive reward for people playing in the next season, since they're the same skin. IMO, that is unsatisfactory. Exclusive rewards are great, but if that's going to be the mentality, each season needs to have its own set. At least a recolor. The system was poorly thought out from the get-go, and the players should not be punished for it. \r#releasethesets\r\rAnd here is Blizzard's reply to the situation:\r\rLooking into this guys! Thanks for the feedback, however please do not jump into other threads and derail them as that is something that is against the Code of Conduct. We've been seeing this post throughout the morning and have been tracking it. While we don't have an answer to really give you guys at the moment, we are actively speaking with development and will share any information that we get when we can.\rHey guys! We've spoken to the development team and we're currently planning to release the ensembles sooner rather than later via a hotfix. We don't have an exact timeline just yet of when this will happen, but its something we will hopefully have out sooner than the end of the season.\rWe have a generalized timeline right now internally but its met with the usual caveats of development. The hotfix has to be created, then tested, then pushed to the live servers, and verified that it does work. So Development and QA have to find room to squeeze this in an already full schedule. \r\rWe don't like giving timelines unless we're 110% sure because literally anything can happen. i.e. hotfix doesn't work, schedules shift around etc. \r\rTL;DR: Soon\u2122 is a real thing sometimes!

Commentaires

Commentaire de Iceman3317

on 2018-03-21T15:03:02-05:00

I am not sure I am understanding what is being said. It may be because I am reading it wrong or my mind just isn't grasping it. Why do they keep saying Elite if it is the same skin? I will read it a few more times to see if I understand what is being said.

So, are they planning to release s5\/s6, which is also s7, skins to everyone for honor or are we going to have to get a rating still? Or is there virtually no difference and we will have to wait for S7 to finish until we can buy the normal sets with honor.

Anyway, I think there is a simple fix for this honestly. Revert the stupid update that causes pvp gear to become agonizingly rare from PVP WQs and the RNG crap from chests. If they really don't want people to have the gear, then why not just let us unlock the appearance from WG at a more common rate. The main reason most were even doing PVP WQs was because of the appearances.

Commentaire de Stoneheart98

on 2018-03-21T15:09:00-05:00

Can someone just confirm that I will be able to buy s7 elite ensemble (mythic antorus recolor) in BfA pre-patch IF I score 2k rbg rating during s7 now?

Commentaire de Narrae

on 2018-03-21T15:13:28-05:00

I am not sure I am understanding what is being said. It may be because I am reading it wrong or my mind just isn't grasping it. Why do they keep saying Elite if it is the same skin? I will read it a few more times to see if I understand what is being said.\r\rSo, are they planning to release s5\/s6, which is also s7, skins to everyone for honor or are we going to have to get a rating still? Or is there virtually no difference and we will have to wait for S7 to finish until we can buy the normal sets with honor.\r\r\rAnyway, I think there is a simple fix for this honestly. Revert the stupid update that causes pvp gear to become agonizingly rare from PVP WQs and the RNG crap from chests. If they really don't want people to have the gear, then why not just let us unlock the appearance from WG at a more common rate. The main reason most were even doing PVP WQs was because of the appearances.\r\rs5 \/ s6 \/ s7 Elites sets are not available at this moment, they're just planning to release the Elite set sooner to not wait the end of s7 (which will be over in several months). The 2k rating achievement is still required.

Commentaire de Monsoont

on 2018-03-21T15:20:45-05:00

I am not sure I am understanding what is being said. It may be because I am reading it wrong or my mind just isn't grasping it. Why do they keep saying Elite if it is the same skin? I will read it a few more times to see if I understand what is being said.

So, are they planning to release s5\/s6, which is also s7, skins to everyone for honor or are we going to have to get a rating still? Or is there virtually no difference and we will have to wait for S7 to finish until we can buy the normal sets with honor.

Anyway, I think there is a simple fix for this honestly. Revert the stupid update that causes pvp gear to become agonizingly rare from PVP WQs and the RNG crap from chests. If they really don't want people to have the gear, then why not just let us unlock the appearance from WG at a more common rate. The main reason most were even doing PVP WQs was because of the appearances.

There are Combatant's (SotT dungeon set recolored), Gladiator's (Antorus set recolored), and Elite Gladiator's (Mythic Antorus set recolored) appearances (or tiers, in a sense). Season 5, 6 and 7 share the same appearances across all 3 tiers.

What you are thinking is Combatant's and Gladiator's, which come from Random Battleground win or rarely from WQs, and you can use Echoes of Battle to purchase the missing pieces.

What they are talking about is the Elite Gladiator's, which is not currently shown in Appearance tab unless you collected them all. They come from competitive PvP wins like rated Battlegrounds or rated 2v2 or 3v3 Arenas. Some may not be so lucky in getting all the pieces in one season since there are other elite pvp items you might get like trinkets, necklace and rings as well as duplicated pieces of what you already have.

So what they are doing is that rather than waiting for the end of season 7, people who have earned at least 2000 rating during season 5 and 6 can purchase the full appearance with Mark of Honor rather than participating in season 7 and grind the rating just to get the missing pieces. The Combatant's and normal Gladiator's do not need rating to buy, but not sure if they will be available as well since they are not the concern of original post.

Commentaire de tmptfate

on 2018-03-21T16:00:23-05:00

Thank the titans, this is great news.

Commentaire de Panthrax

on 2018-03-21T16:34:59-05:00

Um, that first post wasn't by Blizzard.

Commentaire de ijsselzichta

on 2018-03-21T16:38:02-05:00

I'm actually kind of sad about it, it's a pretty cool change for the people who have been getting rly unlucky but man you don't just cap one bracket above 2k if you actually play the game at these kind of ratings. I completed my elite set several weeks before the end of s5 and having completed it actually made me kinda proud because I was capping 3 2ks a week for a pretty long time just to farm it as quick as possible.\r\rWhat's a few months of waiting when you cba putting in the effort to farming it? And to the people complaining about combatant\/normal gladiator set, just queue arenas, gladiator pieces are so easy to get there, you'll complete your set after like a week of doing rated arenas.

Commentaire de krenovich

on 2018-03-21T16:43:09-05:00

Just make it that ppl who got s5\/s6 achievment for 2k or 2k+ are able to buy and ppl who got it s7 will have to wait until end of itLike make it purchasable with \/ and after s7 put in the requirements. in other words izi solution :)

Commentaire de jaq1010

on 2018-03-21T17:33:48-05:00

Ahh, that's the thread that in a few hours after the blue post (which is not the first one) collapsed into a string of "#releasethesets" and people wondering why it hadn't already happened, despite the blue post explaining what had to happen. \r\rMy faith in humanity tends to take a beating when I go by GD on the WoW forums.

Commentaire de Nulgar

on 2018-03-21T17:45:48-05:00

Simple solution: let us buy Elite sets after a season is over *cough*

Commentaire de Gressie

on 2018-03-21T18:23:49-05:00

and there are 34 prestige levels datamined but blizzard with their disgusting 0% commentary not letting us now that 25 prestige will only be for legion and the rest in bfa.

Commentaire de MindGames96

on 2018-03-21T18:34:40-05:00

Um, that first post wasn't by Blizzard. Exactly!

Yea that first part isnt a blue post........its a forum post.....Might make it easier to read\/understand

Commentaire de Mewxinator

on 2018-03-21T23:38:13-05:00

2k duelist range .. lul, stay rival bro

Commentaire de Momoi

on 2018-03-22T03:15:42-05:00

pvp what is this

Commentaire de qaccy

on 2018-03-22T03:38:36-05:00

Man, I'm really digging the Priest set. I wish that'd been the raid color instead of the pvp one. :(

Commentaire de nezull

on 2018-03-22T14:55:47-05:00

wow good thing he broke the code of conduct, it got blizzards attention